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Comment on First impressions of Intrepid Ibex by Took

Took — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:57:01 +0000

It seems to be fixed turning on the “always visible” option. Thanks!

Comment on Car companies: too big to fail, or too big to survive? by S

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:29:11 +0000

It makes a perfect sense - time for the renaissance. As Garret LoPorto puts in his book ‘The DaVinci Method’, it is the perfect storm for the real DaVinci’s to come out, lead the generation in the path that benefits all. Its the time to be creative, use our intelligence that we’ve so ignored all along, being sucked into the routine boring jobs just for the feeling of security.

Comment on First impressions of Intrepid Ibex by freelock

freelock — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:56:16 +0000

Hi,

Not completely fixed yet. Two ways to revive it:

1. Open the Bluetooth preferences, switch the option to hidden and then back to always visible, and you’ll be able to pair again. Or,

2. Type “sudo hciconfig hci0 pscan” to turn bluetooth scanning back on.

There are several bugs open on Launchpad about this. One of the comments lists where you can add that line to a suspend/resume script to make it work without intervention.

Hope that helps!
– John

Comment on First impressions of Intrepid Ibex by Took

Took — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:57:29 +0000

I’ve installed Intrepid Ibex on my laptop and i have the same trouble configuring my bluetooth mouse. If you get it working, please post information about how to fix this bug.

Thanks!

Comment on Mythbusting PHP: 10 common myths about PHP by Eneza

Eneza — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:31:55 +0000

Interesting post… I use php and im trying to be a better coder. Spaghetti code yeah!!!

Hell yeah!

Comment on Socialism, individualism, and open source by yarden

yarden — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:32:13 +0000

Bravo!
well said.

Comment on On taxes and barstool economics by Rick

Rick — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:12:42 +0000

I find it interesting that when we think about taxes and responsibility, we think about it in different terms than when we think of individual people and responsibility. It is normally the case that those who have demonstrated the greatest ability have managed the greatest responsibility. Our entire system of government, business, and rearing our families is based on this concept. Why should taxes be any different?
I think that part of the problem is that we have become to individualistic and opportunistic. America was built on communities and a sense of togetherness. Now we live in an age of super-competitiveness, where people are out for themselves and what they can amass, completely unaware that the sun shines on all of us.
We, as a country, need to go back to basics…we need to look at things that we can do something about. We need to hold people accountable for their theft and indiscretions. We need to address issues of education and poverty, transportation, economics, businesses and work. We need to address the goals and purpose of our government. We have crossed so many lines between right and wrong that the legal system is beginning to look murky at best.
Consider, for a moment…what would happen if our taxes went up 1%-2%? What would happen if they went down 1% - 2%? What about 5%?
The question should be: what is going to happen with my tax dollars? If I am going to bail out a company or companies that made bad decisions and caused me and my country pain and suffering, I don’t want any part of it. I would rather keep my money and spend it where I choose.
If it is going to be invested in our infrastructure so that we are not so dependant on fossil fuels or going into our health system so hospitals don’t have to charge $3,300 for an emergency room visit
Consider this: By keeping the best schools exclusive to the highest-tax grossing neighborhoods, we perpetuate the problem of under education, poverty and at-risk communities.
By dumping all of our money and resources into the largest companies who have the greatest resources and responsibility, and treating small businesses as though they are to be tolerated, we cut the legs out from underneath our societies. While there are many small businesses that go out of business, there are many that do well, and get sold to larger businesses or become larger businesses.
It’s ironic how when someone speaks for truth and addressing the needs of the group, versus the needs of the individual or exclusive individuals, he is labeled. I think that sometimes, we ask that people address a scratch on the bumper when the whole car is wrecked.

Comment on On taxes and barstool economics by J

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:18:02 +0000

There’s a possibility that Washington State may become more friendly to business (& thus keep it here), however that will require a change in politics in what has become legacy politics in this state.

Federally it’s a toss up, neither major candidate has a fiscal policy that makes economic sense. On one side there’s business as usual, while on the other there is a plan to “spread the wealth” by taking more money from those who take the initiative, via higher taxes and penalties, and giving it to people who never took the initiative to work hard. It is this idea of forcibly taking money from people who have worked hard to get ahead and giving it freely to people who haven’t which was the subject of the aforementioned article (separate from the US economy).

No matter how one looks at it, the next 4 - 10 years are looking to be considerably challenging and which will require quite a few “changes” that will likely catch a lot of people by surprise.

Comment on On taxes and barstool economics by Mark

Mark — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:33:00 +0000

some good points, tax those that are costing us the most, that are using up the resouces of our current tax dollars, and lower the tax for those that are bringing us income, replenishing our tax dollars.

Comment on Ask Freelock: What’s the scoop on mobile devices? by Alan

Alan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:10:41 +0000

Actually, the Blackberry does ship with a browser, and a reasonably capable one at that. The built-in browser has several “modes,” with availability controlled by “service books” provided by the vendor. The modes on my T-Mobile 8320/Curve are Internet Browser (via the phone system), WiFi Browser (via WiFi) and T-Zones, which is a more stripped down version of the Internet browser.

Options in the built-in browser include Javascript support (enabled, disabled, prompt); HTML tables; background images; foreground/background colors; embedded media (limited); style sheets. Emulation modes for the browser are Blackberry, Openwave/WAP, Openwave Gateway, Microsoft IE, MS Pocket IE and Netscape.

The normal view is geared to displaying content on a small screen, but there’s always the option for “Desktop View” on the menu for each page.

And of course you can install Opera if you prefer it, though it’s not as integrated with other applications (e.g. can’t set it as the default browser, can’t dial phone numbers from within it, and it doesn’t use the optimized text entry fields so it’s much clumsier for forms).

Development for all modern Blackberries is in Java; many MIDP2 programs will run immediately and others need minor changes.